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Some are of the opinion that the youth vote is either not worth it (they "never turn out") or unattainable. Most years I agree with the former. But not this year. I think it will be a factor and I also think we should go after those votes. With the right ad campaign, we could prevent the youth vote from catapulting the Empty Suit into the WH this year. Fox ran a segment today on the youth vote and it really struck me. Typical youth interviewee: "I don't know why I'm going to vote for him (Obama) - I'm not...

I've started seeing these ads all over the web: Seen 'em? There must be a turnover problem at this organization...

USUALLY WHEN BARACK OBAMA gives a major speech, the overdone hosannas from the liberal commentariat follow as surely as night follows day. The American Prospect's Ezra Klein wrote of Obama's post-Iowa victory speech, "I've been blessed to hear many great orations. I was in the audience when Howard Dean gave his famous address challenging the Democratic Party to rediscover courage and return to principle . . . But none achieve(d) quite what Obama, at his best, creates. . . . Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you...

Exit polls from the early states suggest that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has a rare and curious political talent: an ability to win the votes of those who disagree with him — and even those who hold diametrically opposed views. Evidence of that unique appeal first surfaced in his crucial New Hampshire primary victory when exit polls revealed that McCain trounced Mitt Romney among the 35 percent of voters who disapprove of the U.S. war in Iraq. McCain, an unwavering supporter of the war and an early advocate of the Bush administration’s troop surge, won by 44 percent to Romney’s...

In his recent memoir, Alan Greenspan says he's been pushing a constitutional amendment of his own devising. It reads: "Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office." If the Greenspan amendment is ever enacted, it will at last clear the field for Fred Thompson, who might then become president. But not until then. Thompson withdrew from the presidential race last week. He ended his campaign as he had conducted it, with a minimum of fuss and no wasted words. He released a withdrawal statement over the Internet....

California Rep. Duncan Hunter endorsed Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, four days after dropping his own presidential bid. “I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” said Hunter. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America’s industrial base,” he said in a statement. Huckabee said that the other quality compelling his endorsement is that Huckabee “is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the...

Bill Clinton Unloads on Press By Anne E. Kornblut Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media. "You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible." Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to...

Check out Ken Schram's latest commentary. How insulting and childish. This guy has finally flipped, but at least it just illustrates how desperate the libs are right now: Ken Schram sez He Understands ConservativesHe wants your feedback about his commentary. I say we send it to him: kenschram@komo4news.com

I feel like I'm a conservative first, Republican second...I hear a lot of folks express that sentiment. Personally, I'm not ashamed of my association with the GOP, but I often wonder if the Republican "brand" could use some work. Do we have a bad rep, and is that what is keeping the "attraction rate" of African-Americans, for example, into the party so slow? So I'm planting some seeds to see what others think - after we place the stake on the chest of the Democratic/Liberal party this election, should we think about how we might drive it home? Especially in...